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A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason
A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason Author:Kuno Fischer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Kant's Table Of The Categories, And His Critics,thoughts, and that this is sufficient. Sufficient it certainly would be, but its truth is very doubtful. Kant appears more correct in deducing arithm... more »etic from Space ; and on this view we may hold that our knowledge of all the higher numbers, and the processes we perform with them, are mere " textit{cogitationes ccecce sive symbolicce."* III. KANT'S TABLE OF CATEGORIES, AND HIS CRITICS. 1. It is curious that the very ground upon which Kant attacks the Categories of Aristotle has been urged as the particular objection to Kant's own list. " It was a design," he says (p. 65), "worthy of an acute thinker like Aristotle, to search for these fundamental conceptions. Destitute, however, of any guiding principle, he picked them up just as they occurred to him." Now, let us hear Schwegler (Ed. Seelye, p. 285-6): "The method of Fichte, just like that of Hegel afterwards, is a combination of the analytical and synthetical methods, by which Fichte earned the credit of having first deduced the Categories of philosophy from one single point, and of having brought them into connexion, instead of taking them merely empirically, and co-ordinating them, as had been done, even by Kant." The same view is taken by Mr. Mansel (" Metaphysics," p. 193, note), "The Kantian Categories are not deduced from an analysis of the act of thought, but generalized from the forms of theproposition, which latter are assumed without examination, as they are given in the ordinary logic. A psychological deduction, or preliminary criticism, of the forms themselves, might have considerably reduced the numbers." And so both Fichte and Mr. Mansel have given further analyses, which the curious reader may find in the treatise just quoted of Mr. Mansel's, and in Fichte's, " Wissenschaftslehre," (Works, vol. i....« less